Lottie embroidered your first communion dress, Arly, despite her failing eyesight.

Antoni, a Polish taxi driver, struggles to find the money to buy a communion dress for his daughter.

Meanwhile, where is Bob supposed to get the money for his daughter's communion dress?

There were three little girls under twelve, in their first communion dresses, and one of them had an orange marigold in her black hair, just over her ear.

There was a separate group of a dozen girls no more than 11 or 12 wearing white communion dresses.

"It's a pleasant place, really," she said, looking through the communion dresses.

"At 13, she quit school and worked so her sister could have a communion dress," he said.

Sells distinctive gifts, stationery and special-occasion clothes for children, including christening gowns and communion dresses.

What had happened, she wondered, to the little girl in the white communion dress?

There are photographs of Katrina, as a baby, and one of her now, a girl in a white communion dress.